Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas CarlyleLaws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Thomas CarlyleThe glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
Thomas Carlyle